In one of his posts yesterday at TAPPED, Matt discussed a sort of generation gap between his and Ed Kilgore's views that he thinks resulted from the series of events that first attracted each to the political arena. It was a very perceptive, thought-provoking...

Senator Charles Schumer made all the local newscasts in Atlanta tonight. With one soundbite of less than five seconds, he managed to personify the arrogant elitist attitude that is destroying the Democratic Party here and elsewhere. At a news conference complaining about the...

Hearts are fluttering at DKos and Atrios over the news that a Barron's editorial suggests that Bush's "willful disregard of a law" may be grounds for impeachment and should be thoroughly investigated.Good for Barron's. But their position shouldn't be surprising considering how many high-stakes international financial...

And why aren't the results of government funded research treated as valuably as private intellectual property. We just give the stuff away. Personally I don't have a problem with that because I think we all benefit greatly from the free flow...

The Pew survey has lots of other nuggets that should provide many, many hours of blog discussions beginning with the opening paragraph of the summary:"Both major political parties have a problem with their approach toward religion, in the eyes of...

This is an FYI post.Guess what book is the second bestseller at Amazon.com: Neal Boortz and John Linder's The Fair Tax, beaten only by the latest Harry Potter.Kind of scary, isn't it.Also today Boortz launched his book tour on Hannity and...

The subtext here is the Wall Street bailouts and foreclosure wave. All Democratic leaders essentially supported it. This is why there’s grumbling, but no alternatives. The Democrats have really just started their internal debate over big money. https://t.co/8XKgqvJYn2

Brookings Institution fellow Elaine Kamarck on Friday compared President Trump's rhetoric on immigration to "the boy who cried wolf. I think that the president at this point with immigration is like the boy who cried wolf," Kamarck, who also directs the Center for Effective Public Management, told Hill.TV's Jamal Simmons on "What America's Thinking."

What Blair had first conceived of as an elaborate joke was beginning to reveal something darker. “No matter how racist, how bigoted, how offensive, how obviously fake we get, people keep coming back,” Blair once wrote, on his own personal Facebook page. “Where is the edge? Is there ever a point where people realize they’re being fed garbage and decide to return to reality?”....“Nothing on this page is real,” read one of the 14 disclaimers on Blair’s site, and yet in the America of 2018 his stories had become real, amassing an audience of as many 6 million visitors each month who thought his posts were factual.